with congressman deb >> host: representative wasserman-schultz, you said in your presentation three years writing this. >> guest: yes. >> host: why? >> guest: well, about four months after i diseased to -- decided to move forward with writing the book, president obama asked me to take on another full-time job in chairing the democratic national committee, and i felt like in order to really do the book justice and do my job justice, coming out with a policy book during the presidential campaign probably wasn't the best idea, so we pushed the book forward a year. and writing and came out in october. >> by the time this book is published you write i hope we will look back on the health care reform and debt ceiling and knowledge it was rock bottom. i don't want to imagine how it would get worse. >> well, just when you thought it could not get worse, we end up having the republicans and tea party stopping the government to stop people from getting quality, affordable health care. >> who is the next generation? >> that is our children. i wrote thigs through the lens f being mother. even though